Steel car.



' STEEL CAB.'

C. H. ANDERSON.

ArPLroAu'rIoN FILED MAB. 2v', 1911,

C. H. ANDERSGN.

STEEL GAR.

. APPLICATION FILED 1111111.27, 1911.

Patented DSG. 30, 1913.'

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G. H. ANDERSON.

STEBLVCAR. 4 APPLIOATION FILED mmm, 1911. 1:'--'2l,0l8 3,176. -A v Patented Dec. 3o,` 1913.

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o. H. ANDERSON.'

STEEL GAR.

` APPLIOATION FILED MAR.27, 1911. l y51,083,176; Patented Dec. 3o, 1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

` vCHARLES E. ANDERSON, QF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON..

STEEL' can.

specification -of Letters Patent.' Patented De@ 30, 1913. ,l

. Appneation ined. march 27,1911. serial Ng. er'z,1`5e.

To all whom t may concern son, a citizen ofthe United States,

at Seattle, vin the county of King and State fQfWashington, have invented a iseful Improvement in Steel Cars, of which new and following 1s a specifica-tion.

is invention relates to improvement in fthe construction ofsteel-car bodies, and, as

.to'eertain features, is in the nature of an improvement uponA the car-body frame shown, described and claimed in Letters Patent of the United States No. 943,213, grant-f ed to me December.l 14, 1909. e

My objectsare. to improve'the construction of the car-body under-frame with a view to rendering .it particularly light and capable of resisting great buffing andcrushing strains; to facilitate the operation. of constructing thecar-body in separate integral sections' which. may be built up on forms and' readily joined together, 'thereby materially reducing the labor and erecting 'costs;to so construct the car-body ends as to render` them unique'and' attractive in appearance,

- and of few partsjdescribin-g simple curves which may be easily fornied'with necessary accuracy; and -to provide other improve- 'ments which not onl render the car-body particularly. strong, diirable and attractive, but Iwork great .economy in the matter of cost 'of construction.

In; the drawings- Figure 1, is a broken plan section of a car-body frame, having the entrances midway of its ends at opposite Sides, the section being taken on line 1 in Fig.'

3;,Fig. 2, a bottom-plan view of the underii-rame; Fig. 3,fa. broken side view of the .body-frame; Fig. 4, an end' elevation mi the body;l1`ig.`5, an enlarged section taken on irregular-line 5--5 in Fig. I; Fig. 6, a broken detail plan-view`taken at one of the roofframe joints; Fig. 7 an enlarged brokenfsection takenon line 7 in Fig. 5; Fig. 8, an enlarged'broken section of the car-end taken online 8 in Fig.` 4; Fig. 9, a broken elevation of the upper-*portion of the car-end; Fig. 1G, a section on line 10 in Fig. 8; and

Fig. 11, a plan' view of' one ofthe `end roof-- corner plates.

lThe mainsills of the under-framing are -formed of. channel beams 12 which extend z tzc-c'iuiadi the ends of the car-.body and'" tei'mi nate at opposite sides of' the' central 'door- .ways 13. -Riveted against the upper and and rigidity. Extending along the channel l lower sides of the channel'b'eams 12 at each t known that I, CHARLES H. ANDER residing v car-end are upperl end-sill plates 14 and lower end-sill plates 1'5 which, with the chan nel beams, .for-1n box-sills of great strength beams, and riveted to the upper edges'thereof, are inwardly projecting side-sill plates.

16,16., also secured by rivets to the end-sill p lates 14. -Riyetedto the ends of the side. sill plates andupon the end-portions of the. beams 12 are strengthening plates. 17; the plates 17 at opposite sides'of each doorway being riveted at their inner edges to a short longitudinally-extending channel beam 18. Extending'acrossand below the door-'openings are depressed channel or angle-bars 19 Y secured at opposite ends against the under sides of the channel-beams 12. The opposite lengths oi:`"the"ch annelbeams 12 are tied together by the cross sills 20, 21, 22 and 23,l and by the bolsters 24. Fastened against the under sides ofthe beams 12, 21, 20 and 18 are lower strengthening plates 17 which with the upper plates 17 form a box con-v struction of great strength.- Fastened against 4the channel beams `12 and the chan- -nel bars 19 at opposite sides of the doorways are vertical strengthening plates 2 5.- In the doorways 13 are steps of which the channel beams 18 form the top risers; the treads 2 6, 27 and riser 28 in each instance being formed of a single plate-bent to shape. Each lower tread 27 is fastened-uponthechannel bar .19, and each upper .tread 26 `is. fastenedl against the loweredge of the channel beam 18. At the opposite ends of each flight of steps are plates 29 forming side-.cheekssecured to the cross-sills 20 and carryingv angle-bars 30 fastenedv against tflie'ends of' the treads and risers` of vthe steps. The joints between the ends ofthe cross-sills 2.2', 23 and the channel beams 12 are strengthenedby'- gusset-plates 31.

In practice, theunderfran'ie `formed of the parts described constitutes Vone practically integral section of the'car-body, complete in itself in the sense that itis constructed 'sepf arate: and apart from the other"portions"of the car-body. It dispenses with the longitudinally-extending center and inter-mediate sills usually rovided in car underframes.- The' box-end sills, and the channel beams 12 les and 18, reinforced by the sill-plates 1 6,l strengthening box-plates 17,17*?, channel bars19 and steps, form a fratrie presenting i etedto or forming'anintegral lower trussspla'te 3 5 and forms a -stiil'ening doorway in theboxes formed by the upper and lower plates-17, 17a, and adjacent end-.- portions of thechannel-bea'm sills 12, 1 8,

QOandQl, which boxes operate to distribute the bulingstrainsto, more especially, the

heavy oham'iel-bcam sills 18. rlhe drawing.

and bufling strains are 'distributed through the box-ends to the opposite side-portions of the frame which, when constructed as -described, are of great strength and are not weakened by the presence of the doorways. Any tendency'of the channel lbeams'12 to buckle vunder crushing strain is etiectually resisted by the sill-plates 16, andthe'se sillplates form supports for the'car-flooring.

Each side-frame of the car-body is con-l structed as a separate integral section and is formed with T -bars which Vconstitute posts, separating the window-openings' and the door-openings, and form the roof-supf porting car-lines.` The Tbars 32 and 33 form, respectively, the center and side posts of the doorways, and-the T -bars 34 separate the windowopenings. Extending from each'door post T-bar 33 tothe end of the side-frame is 'atruss-plate 35 fastened with rivets tothe T-bars 33 and 34, and channel.- beams12. Atthe opposite. sides ofeach doorway 13 are upright-plates 36each rivpartI of a plate 35. Extendingthe full length ofthe sideframe over 'the window and door-open-- ings .is an upper- "trussplate 3.7.v On the upper outer edge of each lower trusssplate- 35 is' a longitudinallyfextending channel-bar 38 having'an inclined -upper face; "and fas.- tened jto t'he lower .outer .edge of the upper truss-plateis a Z-bar 39.' The channel-bar 38 operates to st iien the upper edges of .the

support for thewindow-sill plates 40 in the. windowopenings The Z-bar 39 stiiens the lower edge ofthe upper truss-plate'37, and,- in practice, forms a housing for the upper edge of the 4upper window-sash or s ashes as well asa watershed. At eachdoor-opehing .the plate 37 and Z-bar 39 formfthe lintel,

and, being riveted to the upright-plates 43.6,

constitute the top or compression cord of-a' truss-construction, of which the lower, or tension, cord is formed, more especial-ly, by

the channel-'beam 18, andalsoby the. chanll nel-bar .19- and steps.' This construction contributes greatly to the strength 'ofthe car-body -at'the d oor-openings.

' .The present vcar-body is designed to be fitted 'with side, or longitudinally-extending,l seats,`fro rn the door-openings approximately halfway to the ends of the o ar and thence with cross-extending seats having anaisle' between them."

Riveted Ato each T-bar 3 4 is a gussetplate for'attaohmentto the sillplate 16 of the underframe." The gusset plates 41 on the T-bars', or door-posts, -33

may be formed as shown in Fig -5', and thegusset-plates on the T-bars.34.toward the endsV of the car-body may be similar thereto.

The T-bars, at opposite sides of the door- '.posts, along which the sideseats are to extend, are provided with combi-nation gusset and seat-supporting plates 42 which may be of the'shape indicated in Fig. 5. The gussetplates 42 contribute quite materially to the strength yand rigidity. of the structure and dispense with yother supporting means for thesidef-seats,

In practice, vthe sid'efframes consisting of theparts described are constructed upon asuitable` form, the tops or carline portions of the T-bars 32, 33, 34 terminating', at 'the center of the roof-line.' When the side-l frames are assembled upon the underframe the ends of the opposite T-.bars 3Q, 33, 34' abut and may .be secured together by angleplates-43. .If desired,'ornamental forgedor malleable T-bar joining-piecesmay be substituted forl the plainangle-plates 43 illus'- trated, which'pieces may, for example, form lamp sockets A A ETheendsof thecar are separately formed structures having the 4upright T-bars 44,

provided'at theirlower ends with, gussetplates for attachment tothe box-sill platesv 14, anda lower end plate`45.' The l'.bars

44 support the car-end hood consisting of the 'center-plate portion 46 and corner-plate portions'j47. The plate 46 1s bentdn'the are of a circle, forming,- inett'eot-,'the quarter of -a cylinder', whil'eth'e tcorner-plates are dished to the arc of ajcircle of'the'same' diameter,A

and constituteapproximately one-fourth'oi asphere. Thus, the plates-46, 47 `describe simple ourvesl'whichiar'e easily formed, and

they join closely together. at their meeting Ledges. Owing to-=the`. 'simple shape of' the hood', the parts 46 vand 47'1nay, if desired, bey

easily shaped from agsingle plate. Rising from the hood-plates 46, 47,;i'sfa yert'ical' endl-plate 48 -Jwhioh'may contain ja designa-. tion sign opening 49 .and signalflight- 'openings 50. Tlie plate 48 is .flanged atits .lower edge andriveted to the vhoo d-plates- 4 6, 47. The upper circular edge' of theplate 48 is adapted to tit closelywith'in 'the'head ofthe T-ba-r 34 which forms-the end,-ca'rli'i'ie.,f' yTo place an end in positionit vis riveted at its gusset-plates to the .boxesilllplate 14,' at its plates 45, 47 and'4'8 `tothe adjacent T-bars 34, andV at 'its'. plate'v45- also to thev channel beam 12. @The lower .end-plate 45 thus alouts against' the ends'of the-plates 35,' forming, in effect, a continuation. -thereof.

951 'attachmentsI for bell-.cord hangers or electric- .frames which are separately built up Extending around the ends are the bars 38a,

The roof plates 52 may be secured to the Vcarline before the side-frames are assembled upon the underframe and in that event would abut at the center of the roof-line. The joint at the center of the roof-line is covered by a cap-plate 53.

Constructed as described, the car-body is formed of five sections, namely, the underframe, the two side-frames, and the two endon forms, andwhich, when assembled, lit properly together and constitute the entire carbody. Constructing the sections in this Way permits the use of forms, which insure accuracy and interchangeability, and laborsaving machines and tools for punching,

riveting,'.etc., which could not be employed if the car-body were erected as a Whole instead of in sections.

The foregoing description, of the car as I now prefervto construct it, has been given for clearnessof'understanding only, my intention -beingfrfthat no undue limitation should be understood therefrom, and that the .claims which {followshall be -construed as broadly as the permit.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a steel-car underframe, channelbars extending around the edgesv ofthe car body and forming integral end and side sills, inwardly projecting plates secured to the upper and lower sides of the end-sill portions o said channel-bars. and inwardly projecting plates secured to the upper edges of the side-sill portions of said channel bars.

2. In a steel-car, an underframe formed with channel-beam'side and end sills, in-

priorstate of the art may `Wardly projecting upper and lower plates secured against the upper and lower sides of the channel-beam across the ends of the frame and forming with the channel-beam an endboX-sill, and inwardly proj eeting side sill-plates secured at their outer edges to the channel-beam and at one end to the upper box-sill plate.

CHARLES H. ANDERSON. In the presence of- R. A. RAYMOND,

J. G. ANDERSON. 

